14 Gorgeous New York City Homes That Went On the Market in 2015
In between the mansions and luxury condos and teeny-tiny apartments that hit the market in New York City in 2015, there were plenty of places that stood out simply because we thought they were stunning. Check out 14 of our favorites below—they run the gamut from a detached Victorian in Ditmas Park to an Upper East Side megamansion to a huge penthouse in a domed Nolita building.
Citi Bikers Took More Than 10 Million Rides in 2015
Citi Bike has broken records for the highest annual rides for any bike share program in the entire country, and even beat out cities like London, according to a press release by Mayor Bill de Blasio's Office. "We worked hard to put Citi Bike back on solid footing and expand the system to new neighborhoods," said de Blasio in the release. The new leadership at Motivate has done incredible work making this a public transit option New Yorkers can rely upon, and today's 10 millionth ride is a testament to their success. The future of public bike sharing in New York City is looking brighter than ever."
The Top 10 Most Talked About Real Estate Stories of 2015
It's time to make up a bunch of awards and hand them out to the most deserving people, places and things in the real estate, architecture and neighborhood universes of New York City! Yep, it's time for the 12th Annual Curbed Awards!
It's that time of year when we take a look back at all of the diatribes, short and pithy observations, infighting, and trolling that characterizes the Curbed NY comments section. The year in Curbed NY comments alleged a few things, amongst them that climate change is fake, 57th Street's towers are to be exalted, the city's wealth gap is intolerable, and Bjarke Ingels's World Trade Center tower is...just alright. Needless to say, it's been a strange year. Here now, the ten most commented posts of the 2015.—Tanay Warekar and Zoe Rosenberg
30 Instagram Accounts We Loved in 2015
2015 was the year of Instagram. The social media platform was a favorite of designers, architects, photographers, florists, glassblowers… the list goes on. We especially loved all of the excellent interior design inspiration to be found on Instagram, from the effervescently bohemian rooms snapped by 'grammers like designer Justina Blakeney and photographer Dabito of the blog OldBrandNew, to the spare, Scandinavian cool of Muuto design manager Nina Bruun or ELLE Decoration Sweden editor Katarina Matsson. Here now, 30 Instagram accounts we loved in 2015 and can't wait to see more of in 2016.
See a Transforming Times Square, From the 1910's Through Today
[Revelers in Times Square on New Year's Eve, 1942. All photos via the Museum of the City of New York]
One of New York City's biggest shindigs is set to go down tonight in Times Square, as approximately one million people descend on Midtown to see a 12,000-pound ball covered in Waterford Crystal drop, ringing in 2016. The tradition has been going for more than 100 years, and has only gotten bigger with time, both in size (only 200,000 people attended the first bash, intended to celebrate the opening of the New York Times's headquarters, in 1904) and scope. But how has Times Square changed in that century-plus? A lot, if a look through the Museum of the City of New York's photo collection is any indication. Take a look at some of the most fascinating photos of the neighborhood, showing Times Square from the early 20th century all the way through the present.
$15M Tadao Ando Apartment Poised to Break Nolita Record
There was no question that Tadao Ando's first New York City building, a so-called "jewel box" at 152 Elizabeth Street, would generate plenty of interest once sales finally launched. But only a few months after the apartments within the glass and concrete structure hit the market, the building is breaking records: the New York Post reports that one of Ando's full-floor apartments, #5, is in contract for it's full $15.2 million asking price—which would be a record for a non-penthouse sale in the neighborhood. The 4,094-square-foot apartment has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, along with a window-lined great room, a master suite, and—true to Ando's design—lots of glass and concrete.
EPA To Perform Early Review of Hudson River Cleanup
Sometime in early 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencywill begin examining whether General Electric successfully removed harmful chemicals from the Hudson River as part of its dredging project that concluded this year, the Villager reports. That's a whole year earlier than when the EPA was scheduled to carry out the review. The expedited examination is a result of pressure from local environmental groups who believe that GE did not do enough
Redevelopment of East Village School Is In Turmoil Again
The former P.S. 64 building in the East Village just can't get a break. A group of financial backers are suing developer Gregg Singer for allegedly pocketing money from the project and causing several delays, The Real Deal reports.
New York's Future Tallest Tower Begins Its Skyward Ascent
[Extell's Central Park Tower is on the rise. All photos by NYConstructionPhoto via Curbed Flickr Pool]
When we last checked in on the construction progress at Extell's Central Park Tower, the forthcoming tallest residential tower in New York City, it was little more than a hole in the ground. But a few months have passed and work on the supertall is plugging away, as a new series of photos by NYConstructionPhoto shows; in fact, it's finally risen above street level, with some of the steel support structure and actual floors visible. But that still doesn't offer a clue as to the building's final design: We know it'll be 1,550 feet tall, and that its spire has been cut off, but the rest remains a mystery.
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Syrian Ruin Destroyed by ISIS to Be Replicated in NYC
A damaged, historic piece of architecture in Syria will soon get recognition in New York City and London. A team of archeologists are looking to build replicas of the arch at the Temple of Bel in Palmyra in Syria, The Guardian first reported.
Michael Bierut Shows Us How to Design the Perfect City
Manhattan's wayfinding signage, introduced beginning in 2013, was designed by Michael Bierut for Pentagram—one of the many small but vital visual cues Bierut has added to the urban texture of New York City. Photo courtesy of NYCDOT.
Seminal graphic designer and Pentagram partner Michael Bierutdoesn't believe in design as an esoteric pursuit. Sure, he's designed scores of posters for the Yale Graduate School of Architecture, and he can talk about Umberto Ecco as well as legible street signs, but consider some of the lessons present in his 2015 book How To. How to make a museum mad, how to squash a vote, how to travel through time, how to investigate a murder (!). The subtext running through all of these somewhat tongue-in-cheek chapters is that almost anything can be accomplished through good design. A lofty promise in anyone else's words, perhaps, but one that famously-down-to-earth Bierut fleshed out in earnest on the occasion of his own design retrospective this fall, at SVA's Chelsea Gallery.
Beloved Lower East Side Community Garden Is Safe, For Now
The Lower East Side's Siempre Verde Garden received some long-awaited good news today. Control of the L-shaped community garden will be transferred from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to the Parks Department, putting it safe out of the reach of developers, The Low Down reports. The three-parcel garden on the block bounded by Stanton, Attorney, Rivington, and Clinton streets narrowly escaped the clutches of developer William Gottlieb Real Estate, which last year proposed building a 16-apartment building with three units of affordable housing on two of the adjacent parcels occupied by the community garden. Siempre Verde has been operating under a temporary GreenThumb permit since 2012.
Original Penn Station Wasn't Always Perfect, Archicritic Argues
[Photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS]
"Pennsylvania Station was ruined long before it was wrecked." So begins David Dunlap's latest Building Blocks piece for the Times, in which he takes an unsentimental look at the long-gone, yet still-revered, McKim, Mead & White station.
'Running With Scissors' Author Ditches Battery Park City Pad
[All photos via Halstead Property]
New York Times bestselling author Augusten Burroughs of Running With Scissors fame has sold his Battery Park City studio for a very not-stellar $637,000—well, not-stellar by celebrity standards, anyway. 6sqft was the first to report on the sale of the apartment, which is located at 225 Rector Place.
NYC's Best New Architecture of 2015, From the Whitney to 2 WTC
It's time to make up a bunch of awards and hand them out to the most deserving people, places and things in the real estate, architecture and neighborhood universes of New York City! Yep, it's time for the 12th Annual Curbed Awards! Up now: the best of New York City's new architecture.
This was a year of big transition for New York City architecture. Last year brought the topping out of 432 Park Avenue and Bjarke Ingels's tetrahedron, and announcement after announcement of yet another supertall tower poised to rise in Manhattan. While 2015 was more tame on that front, the year has seen some of those many plans spring into action, and has delivered on some long-awaited projects deserving of some praise. Here now, the best new architecture—reveals, makeovers, and conversions included—of 2015.
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